sullenness

Roget-categorie 901a

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#901a. Sullenness

zelfstandig naamwoord

sullenness etc. adj. — morosity^†, spleen — churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895 — irascibility etc. 901.
moodiness etc. adj. — perversity — obstinacy etc. 606 — torvity^†, spinosity^† — crabbedness etc. adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor — sulks, dudgeon, mumps^†, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl — grouch — huff etc. (resentment) 900.

werkwoord

be sullen etc. adj. — sulk — frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam^†, pout, have a hangdog look, glout^†.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

sullen, sulky — ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed — grouty [U.S.] — in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor — out of temper, out of humor — knaggy^†, torvous^†, crusty, crabbed — sour, sour as a crab — surly etc. (discourteous) 895.
moody — spleenish^†, spleenly^† — splenetic, cankered.
cross, crossgrained^† — perverse, wayward, humorsome^† — restiff^†, restive — cantankerous, intractable, exceptious^†, sinistrous^†, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward — cussed [U.S.].
dogged etc. (stubborn) 606.
grumpy, glum, grim, grum^†, morose, frumpish — in the sulks etc. n. — out of sorts — scowling, glowering, growling — grouchy.
peevish etc. (irascible) 901.

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